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Federal Regulators Wage War on Christmas

By |2020-04-23T21:57:13-04:00December 28th, 2010|

This column by ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Ken Klukowski was published December 27, 2010 on Townhall.com

It’s worth noting not only that the War on Christmas has continued, but now federal regulators have joined the wrong side. Christians should get far more aggressive in fighting back, because the Constitution is on their side.

Various outlets have reported throughout December that regulators from the Federal Reserve told privately-owned banks that they can’t have Christmas displays. It’s illegal for government agents to do that.

The Federal Reserve is a public-private hybrid. In one sense, it’s a private bank with money reserves, and also serves as […]

Supernatural Hand in Christmas Atheism

By |2023-03-10T08:04:50-05:00December 25th, 2010|

This column by ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight was published December 23, 2010 on The Washington Times website.

“In the beginning, the devil created. …” Wait a minute. That’s not how the Bible begins.

Or creation for that matter. Genesis 1:1 reads: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

The point here is that God is the Creator. The devil is only a spoiler, a cad who lives to destroy truth, beauty and life and to devour human souls. That’s his job, and he does it all too well. He creates nothing but sorrow and regret.

1 Peter 5:8 […]

Christmas Wise Guys

By |2010-12-23T14:07:52-05:00December 23rd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Legal Analyst Jan LaRue wrote this column that will appear on Townhall.com.

Two thousand years ago, wise men came from the East bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to honor Christ’s birth. A beautiful new Christmas song asks, “Where’s the Line to See Jesus?”

From the beginning, some in the line have been neither wise nor bearing gifts.

Herod tried to kill Him. Irreligious zealots now want Him ostracized from public life (see here,

here, here, here, here, and here). Some all-knowing atheists want Him “demythologized.” Yes. Folks […]

America's Financial Future: Our Choice… But Not For Long

By |2010-12-23T10:02:41-05:00December 23rd, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 23, 2010, on Townhall.com.

In August of this year, Admiral Michael Mullens, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, advised Congress that “The National debt is the biggest threat to our national security.” In November, voter sentiment against the debt and deficit led to an historic rebuke of Congressional incumbents. In December, the President’s Debt Commission laid out in stark terms the imminent economic impact of continued deficit spending.

Apparently rejecting these clarion calls, the President and Congress acted in the lame-duck session to cut not one dime of federal spending, […]

The Death Panel's First Murder

By |2010-12-22T19:12:11-05:00December 22nd, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 22, 2010 on The American Spectator website.

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked its regulatory approval of the drug Avastin to treat late stage, metastatic breast cancer. Each year, the practicing oncologists chosen by 17,500 American women to save them from their life-threatening, heavily progressed cancer prescribe Avastin to treat them.

The FDA explained that it was revoking approval of the drug for that use because it decided that the drug does not provide “a sufficient benefit in slowing disease progression to outweigh the significant risk to patients.” Risk? The drug is […]

Obama, McCartney, and the Taxman!

By |2010-12-20T15:15:33-05:00December 20th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 19, 2010, on The American Thinker website.

It was a great event at the White House last June. Sir Paul McCartney came to be honored by President Obama. And he thrilled the glittering company with his rendering of that classic Beatles hit — “Michelle.”

Sir Paul cooed to our First Lady the lines that say, “I love you, I love you, I love you!” He later joked that he might be the first man ever punched out by a president. (That questionable honor actually goes to the […]

Reckless Congress Makes Case for Recall

By |2010-12-20T10:41:01-05:00December 20th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Robert Knight wrote this column appearing December 17, 2010 on The Washington Times website.

If ever a Congress epitomized the need for more accountability, it’s the 111th lame-duck gang. Sorry, that’s unfair to gangsters. With most Americans distracted by holiday plans, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, has sprung another Christmas surprise, vowing to ram through a far-left agenda in the waning days of 2010. Last year, he put a giant lump of coal in Americans’ stockings with Christmas Eve passage of Obamacare.

This year, he has tried to force through a pork-loaded $1.1 trillion spendathon, […]

Don't Start on START — Until Next Year

By |2010-12-17T16:58:35-05:00December 17th, 2010|

ACRU Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell wrote this column appearing December 17, 2010, on The Patriot Post website.

Americans can tell when we are being lied to. We’re being lied to when Harry Reid tells us that the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia is a bit of unfinished business that the Senate must ratify because it’s “urgent.” Urgent? If that had been the case, why didn’t Mr. Reid bring the measure up last summer? Or last fall?

Last summer, too many Americans might have had fresh memories of the “Hamburger Summit” that President Obama held with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. […]

The ACLU's Not-So-Holy Trinity

By |2010-12-16T11:11:25-05:00December 16th, 2010|

Professor of Political Science Paul Kengor wrote this column appearing December 14, 2010 on The American Spectator website.

The ACLU seems unusually active right now. What gives? Maybe it’s the Christmas season, which always seems to spring the ACLU into high gear, more miserable than usual.

I tried to ignore the latest round of ACLU legal challenges against religious Americans, but they became too much. The surge has been remarkably ecumenical, not singling out Protestant or Catholic interests.

First, I got an email from Mat Staver’s group, Liberty Counsel, highlighting a bunch of ACLU lawsuits. Then I read a page-one, top-of-the-fold headline in the […]

The New Big Picture

By |2010-12-15T10:02:09-05:00December 15th, 2010|

ACRU General Counsel Peter Ferrara wrote this column appearing December 15, 2010 on The American Spectator website.

Events have moved so fast in the post-election fallout that the last seven days have seen the political cards completely reshuffled. A new big picture has emerged of the political and economic battleground for the next two years. Facing off in the Main Event are President Barack Obama and incoming House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI). For the first time in his life, President Obama is finding himself intellectually overmatched.

The Bush Tax Cuts: The Final Word and Beyond

For how many years have Barack Obama, […]

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